Hello Classmates,

I am Nicholas Gurzynski, a GOV/LAW and Geology double major from a small town on Long Island named Locust Valley. I have had the opportunity to have some really cool pets and hang with some rare and endangered animals in my life so far! I am fascinated by the unknown, whether its behavioral traits in whales or migration patterns of turtles. I am an avid fishermen but I always throw what I catch back, hopefully to catch it again another day.

I am involved in the Marquis Steering Committee and am a Marquis Scholar here on campus. My hobbies include coral reef research and sailing, both of which I was able to do this summer while interning in Australia. I am pursuing a career in intellectual law, more specifically a focus in patents and inventions. I am always down to go for a hike or fly fish down on the Delaware. My dad and grandpa both attended Lafayette and I am proud to becomet on a third generation on this campus.

I am an avid writer, mostly personally, but I have been a research associate on some published works titled, “Crassotrea Virginica, the use of an electrical stimulus as a means of population enhancement and heightened growth.”  I look forward to learning more about animals and our varied perceptions of them through this course! My writing and research papers are published on http://coral.org/, a non-for profit organization I work for called the National Coral Reef Alliance.   The picture I attached is one of my cats Blizzard, in my suitcase which happens regularly. Blizzard has a twin sister named Comet and I nicknamed them respectively Dot.Com and the Blitz.